diff --git a/app/routes/kube/kube.js b/app/routes/kube/kube.js
index 8ab592d1b..9391336c8 100644
--- a/app/routes/kube/kube.js
+++ b/app/routes/kube/kube.js
@@ -15,11 +15,15 @@
 */
 
 const express = require('express');
+const asyncHandler = require('express-async-handler');
 const router = express.Router();
 
 // /kube/liveness
-const kube = router.get('/liveness', (req, res) => {
+const kube = router.get('/liveness', asyncHandler(async(req, res) => {
+  // does a db call to make sure we didnt disconnect
+  await require('../../apollo/models').models.Cluster.find({}, { _id:1 }, { limit:1 });
+
   return res.sendStatus(200);
-});
+}));
 
 module.exports = kube;
diff --git a/kubernetes/razeedash-api/resource.yaml b/kubernetes/razeedash-api/resource.yaml
index 31c41c876..5869a7bcb 100644
--- a/kubernetes/razeedash-api/resource.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/razeedash-api/resource.yaml
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ items:
                 path: /api/kube/liveness
                 port: 3333
               initialDelaySeconds: 5
-              periodSeconds: 10
+              periodSeconds: 20
               timeoutSeconds: 2
             resources:
               requests: